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POLICE, CRIME &
VICTIMS’ PLAN FOR
COUNTY DURHAM
& DARLINGTON
2018 - 2021

Putting victims first in County Durham & Darlington
POLICE, CRIME & VICTIMS' PLAN FOR COUNTY DURHAM & DARLINGTON 2018 - 2021 - Putting victims first in County Durham & Darlington
Contents
                                         Foreword 3

                                           My Plan 4

                                Your Community 6

                                           My Role 10

                       Achieving the Outcomes 12

                                 Service Delivery 23

                                   Plan on a Page 26

              Governance and Accountability 28

                                         Resources 30

                                          Appendix 34
         How the PCVC Plan links to other partnerships

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Foreword
In 2016 I was delighted to be re-elected
as your Police, Crime and Victims’
Commissioner. Now, half way through
my current term of office, I am taking the
opportunity to refresh my Police, Crime and
Victims’ Plan for the period to 2021. The Plan
sets out what I hope to achieve during that
                                                 and influence the work of others to meet local
time, and lays foundations for the longer-
                                                 needs. It will always be important to me to
term.
                                                 be visible and accessible so that you can raise
In 2016, I added the word ‘victims’ to my job    issues with me directly, and I will continue
title, to make it ‘Police, Crime and Victims’    to use your money as efficiently as possible,
Commissioner’. The needs of victims are          to maintain Durham’s position as the most
at the heart of my work. Victims don’t ask       efficient Police force in the country 1. My Plan
to be victims. For the vast majority, the        continues to be based firmly on the issues you
experience is completely unexpected. Many        have told me that you are facing.
are vulnerable; some have mental health
                                                 Crime has changed over the past few decades,
problems. All of them should be offered
                                                 and it will continue to change in the future.
support to cope and recover. Since 2016
                                                 There is no single type of crime called
I have set up a number of victim-focused
                                                 ‘cybercrime’. Many offenders use technology
services, details of which you will find in this
                                                 and the internet to support the offences they
Plan. A key priority for me going forward is
                                                 commit: tackling cyber-enabled and cyber-
ensuring that victims receive the support they
                                                 dependent crime is a mainstream activity for
require to cope, recover and engage in the
                                                 modern policing, and we need to continue to
justice system; not just from the police, but
                                                 work in partnership to combat it.
other services as well.
                                                 I will continue to campaign nationally for fair
Of course, I cannot achieve the ambitions
                                                 funding for policing and victims’ services, and
set out in this plan by working alone, or even
                                                 I will be looking to influence the Government
just by working with Durham Constabulary.
                                                 to reform policy relating to alcohol and drugs,
Every day I have conversations with politicians
                                                 road safety, regulation of private landlords
and senior staff from our Local Authorities,
                                                 and other matters.
NHS organisations, criminal justice partners
and the other emergency services, so that        I will continue to hold the force to account.
we are as joined-up as possible in the work      Durham Constabulary was rated as the best
we do to serve local people. This refreshed      Police Force in England and Wales by HM
plan emphasises that in order to achieve the     Inspectorate of Constabulary and Fire and
objectives set out within it, partners across    Rescue Services last year. The Chief Constable
the criminal justice system, health and local    and I want to maintain these exceptionally
government landscape need to work together. high standards.
Most importantly, I will want to work with
                                                                Ron Hogg
local people. I want to be able to speak to
                                                                Police, Crime and Victims’ Commissioner
local residents, hear what they have to say,
1
    HM Inspectorate of Constabulary, Fire and Rescue Services
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POLICE, CRIME & VICTIMS' PLAN FOR COUNTY DURHAM & DARLINGTON 2018 - 2021 - Putting victims first in County Durham & Darlington
My Plan
  My plan sets out my vision for County Durham and Darlington,
  and how I expect the vision to be achieved

                                                          MY VISION
       County Durham and Darlington are areas where all
     communities are safe, victims and vulnerable people feel
   supported, crime and reoffending are low, and people have
      confidence in policing and the criminal justice system.

  OUTCOMES
     Communities are safe and                Victims and the vulnerable
        crime is reduced                           feel supported

                                            People have confidence in
    Reoffending is reduced and
                                            the Police and the Criminal
     rehabilitation is improved
                                                  Justice System

                              Address the root causes
    Ensure that victims are
                              of offending and support
   supported at all stages of                            Safeguard vulnerable
                                 the rehabilitation of

                       1                          2                        3
      the criminal justice                                     people
                                  people who have
            system
                                       offended

     Tackle and prevent
    domestic abuse and         Tackle and prevent hate
                                                       Tackle and prevent fraud

                       7                          8                        9
  sexual violence in all their          crime
            forms

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KEY PERFORMANCE QUESTIONS
I am setting some Key Performance Questions which will help to determine whether these
outcomes are being achieved. I will use a range of qualitative and quantitative measures
to answer these questions, and will publish progress updates against the outcomes in my
quarterly performance report on my website.

Those Key Performance Questions (KPQs) are:
1 How safe are our communities?
 2   How well are we preventing and reducing crime?
 3   How well are victims supported to cope and recover, and engage in criminal justice
     processes?
 4   How well are vulnerable people supported?
 5   How well are we reducing reoffending?
 6   How well are we rehabilitating people who have offended?
 7   How confident are people in the Criminal Justice System?
 8   How confident are people in the Police?

Achieving these aims requires joint working between many local partners:
• The Police, under the leadership of the Chief Constable
• Agencies of the Local Criminal Justice Partnership and Local Authorities
• A wider range of services provided by other organisations in the public and voluntary and
  community sectors – including some services which I commission and fund.

                                                              MY PRIORITIES
I have also identified twelve priorities which I expect the Police and our partners to focus on in
the course of us achieving the outcomes. The twelve priorities are:

                                 Reduce the harm caused               Improve community

                          4                                                                  6
     Improve road safety

                                                            5
                                   by alcohol and drugs                safety in rural areas

Tackle and prevent anti-             Tackle and prevent               Tackle and prevent

                     10                                11                              12
   social behaviour                    modern slavery                cyber-enabled crime

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Your Community
 POPULATION                                 12                          1,051

                                   NEIGHBOURHOOD
      618,200                          POLICING
                                        TEAMS                       SQ MILES
The communities of County
Durham & Darlington are varied
& diverse
The Durham Constabulary policing area               protected characteristics, and work closely
covers the Local Authority areas of Darlington      with them.
Borough Council and Durham County Council.          The force area is also diverse economically. It
The area has a population of approximately          is experiencing significant direct investment
618,2002.                                           in jobs and infrastructure, most visibly in
The Constabulary area is divided into the 12        Durham City and Darlington. Ensuring that we
neighbourhood policing teams shown on the           have safe communities where people want
map overleaf.                                       to live, work and do business will remain an
Durham Constabulary shares borders with             essential part of continuing to drive economic
Northumbria, Cleveland, Cumbria and North           growth in the area. There has also been
Yorkshire police forces.                            substantial job creation in the east of County
                                                    Durham, and Newton Aycliffe. But many
Darlington is our largest town and lies in the      of the towns and villages in the area have
south of the area. Durham City and the larger       challenges related to industrial decline, with
industrial towns are in the east and north of       high degrees of unemployment – frequently
the area, contrasting with the west which is        inter-generationally.
predominantly rural.
                                                    Many people live in very difficult financial
The population of the area is predominantly         circumstances. Often in these villages, and
white British. Areas such as Durham City, with      in the rural areas to the west of the area,
its large university population, Darlington, and    we also see problems associated with social
some of our larger towns have more notably          isolation. These different challenges require
diverse cultures and populations, and it is vital   different responses.
that we understand the needs of people with
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    2011 census
POLICE, CRIME & VICTIMS' PLAN FOR COUNTY DURHAM & DARLINGTON 2018 - 2021 - Putting victims first in County Durham & Darlington
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD
POLICING TEAMS
                                                       STANLEY
                                                                 CHESTER
                                                   CONSETT      -LE-STREET

                                                                                  HAM
                             CROOK                                            SEA
                                                                DURHAM

                                                                              PETERLEE
                                                                SPENNY-
                                                    BISHOP       MOOR
                          BARNARD                  AUCKLAND
                                                                   NEWTON
                           CASTLE
                                                                   AYCLIFFE

                                                             DARLINGTON

Here I am with the Horden Young Citizens Project
taking part in the Big Spring Clean

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Visiting every community is very important to me.
         Here I am talking to the residents of Derwentside.

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Your Community
Communicating and
engaging with our
communities
I am your voice in policing, and it is therefore   engage with local communities.
important that I have an ongoing dialogue
with you to ensure that I am representing          As our black and minority ethnic populations
your views. It is also important that              are small in number this makes it even more
the Constabulary have meaningful and               important that we communicate and engage
appropriate communication with local people        effectively with those communities. We have
to ensure that they are doing all that they can    excellent relations with the university, faith
to address local needs.                            groups and networks, and an Independent
                                                   Advisory Group covering the interests of
It is vital that this communication is two way.    people from ethnic minorities, LGBT+ people,
We need to listen to our communities and           and people with disabilities across the
hear about the issues that matter to them.         Constabulary area. Going forward, I want to
We also need to ensure that we tell them, on       make sure that as much as possible we are
an ongoing basis, how we are tackling those        seeking the views of people and taking them
issues. I know that this is something we can       into account in how we deliver services.
improve upon. It is also important that we
use the full range of communication methods
available to us to ensure a greater reach
across all communities.

The public tell me that it is important to them
to see police officers on the street; in reality
we don’t have as many officers as we used
to – or as many as we would want. However
this does not mean that the Constabulary are
withdrawing from communities – quite the
opposite. The Constabulary value all of the
essential information which the community
provides. The demands on the service today
mean that a mix of traditional policing with
targeted approaches and innovative solutions
are needed to meet the demands of the
business. This may mean that PACT meetings
have changed in some areas: officers are now
going along to other community activities and
meetings to see what the issues are in the
community. All of the neighbourhood teams
now also use social media to be visible and
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MY ROLE
  The roles and responsibilities of the PCVC and the Chief
  Constable are distinct and complementary

  POLICE, CRIME AND VICTIMS’
  COMMISSIONER (PCVC)
  I am responsible for ensuring that the            • Being responsible for holding community
  policing services across County Durham and          safety budgets and commissioning victim
  Darlington are effective and efficient. As well     services;
  as holding the Chief Constable to account         • Addressing complaints against the Chief
  on behalf of you, the local people, my role         Constable;
  involves:
                                                    • Bringing together partners to make sure
  Representing and engaging with those who            the local criminal justice system is efficient
  live and work in the various communities            and effective.
  in the Constabulary area, including the
  vulnerable and victims, to identify their     Crucially, the role I play extends well beyond
  policing needs;                               that of the police service. Indeed, if I worked
                                                in isolation with the police and did not ensure
  • Setting police and crime objectives through the involvement of a range of other agencies,
    the Police and Crime Plan;                  my objectives would be unachievable.
  • Publishing an Annual Report;                Nationally, I am also the lead portfolio holder
  • Appointing the Chief Constable, holding         for the Association of Police and Crime
    them to account for running the force, and      Commissioners (APCC) on Workforce matters,
    if necessary calling on them to retire or       and I am Chair of the national Police Staff
    resign;                                         Council. I am a member of the APCC standing
  • Setting the police precept and budget;          groups on Criminal Justice, Mental Health and
                                                    Substance Misuse.

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CHIEF CONSTABLE
The Chief Constable, Michael Barton QPM, is    He holds several national positions including:
committed to leading a force which delivers    • Head of Crime Operations Coordination
excellent policing to the people of County       Committee for the National Police Chiefs’
Durham and Darlington, and inspiring             Council (NPCC).
confidence in victims and our communities
by: Protecting Neighbourhoods, Tackling        • National Policing Lead for a range of
Criminals, Solving Problems ...around the        intelligence sharing databases and
clock.                                           systems: Police National Database, Home
                                                 Office Large Major Enquiry System and the
He is responsible for the ‘direction and         Schengen Information System.
control’ of the Police Officers and Police
Staff to deliver effective and efficient       • Chair of the National Specialist Capabilities
policing services across County Durham and       Delivery Board
Darlington. He is operationally independent.
The “Policing Protocol” sets out how the
Police and Crime Commissioner and the Chief
Constable must work together.
The Chief Constable works collaboratively
with partners to make communities safer and
tackle crime.

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ACHIEVING
  THE OUTCOMES
  COMMUNITIES ARE SAFE AND CRIME IS REDUCED
   Key Performance Questions:
                                                                       1
   How safe are our communities?
   How well are we preventing and reducing crime?
   Headlines
   • Hold the Police and partners to account to ensure that they tackle and prevent crime and
     anti-social behaviour effectively
   • Support campaigns to raise awareness of the importance of road safety
   • Work with businesses and local people to help protect them from the threats of cyber-
     enabled crime
   • Campaign for changes in the law which will help partners keep communities safer,
     including:
          ◦◦ Reform of the law on drugs so that people are not unnecessarily criminalised and
             can access the treatment they need
          ◦◦ Introduction of minimum unit pricing for alcohol, to reduce the harm caused by
             over-consumption of cheap drinks like white cider
          ◦◦ Bring in greater powers to regulate the behaviour of private landlords.
  County Durham and Darlington remain               very important, and we need to provide
  amongst the safest places to live, work and       reassurance that it is taken seriously.
  visit in the country.                             However keeping our communities safe, and
  Keeping communities safe is the essence           cutting crime and anti-social behaviour, are
  of policing. The Chief Constable and I want       not jobs for the Constabulary alone. It takes
  the communities of County Durham and              effort from a wide range of organisations
  Darlington to be safe and feel safe. We know      across the public and voluntary sectors
  that communities with low crime rates are         working together, and working with local
  more cohesive and resilient. They are more        people in all areas, urban and rural alike.
  likely to engage with services and report crime   There are a range of powers and options
  and anti-social behaviour. From speaking          available to partner organisations to tackle
  to local people, I know that the number of        anti-social behaviour. I am keen to work
  people who are concerned about anti-social        with communities and our partners and to
  behaviour remains high. Anti-social behaviour     hold them to account, to utilise the options
  can have a significant impact upon a victim’s     available to ensure that anti-social behaviour
  quality of life. Increasing the confidence        continues to fall, and to improve public
  of our communities around this issue is           confidence.
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Road safety remains a key concern when              drugs, I believe that to support those with
I speak with local people across the                addiction an approach based on treatment
Constabulary area. People are particularly          and recovery, rather than criminalisation, is
concerned about speeding vehicles, and              needed so that we can tackle the root cause
dangerous driving. The number of people             of their behaviour. I set out my proposals in
killed and seriously injured in road traffic        this area in Towards a Safer Drugs Policy,
collisions remains too high. Education is           published in July 2017. I continue to support
a key tool in making our roads safer and I          education programmes and campaigns to
will continue to support awareness raising          raise awareness of the harm caused by
campaigns to change behaviour.                      alcohol and substance misuse, as early
Cyber-enabled and cyber-dependent crime             intervention is key.
is increasing. Collaboration and partnership        I will be monitoring the Constabulary’s
working is needed across the country                response to the Strategic Policing
to enhance our capability to tackle this            Requirement (SPR) as set by the Home
growing area. This type of crime is thought         Secretary. The SPR focuses on those areas
to be largely under-reported, and it is now         where there is a responsibility for ensuring
estimated that more than half of all crime          that sufficient capabilities are in place to
is cyber-enabled. Awareness-raising plays           respond to serious and cross-boundary
an important role in tackling cybercrime:           criminality, including working with national
people often do not realise that they have          agencies such as the National Crime Agency.
fallen victim, or that there is help available to
                                                    We are seeking to prevent threats including:
them. Education is key to ensuring that our
communities, including the business sector,         • Terrorism
have the knowledge and ability to protect           • Civil Emergencies
themselves against cyber-enabled crime. I will
                                                    • Public order
continue to work with partners to increase
understanding of the threats and risks faced        • Child sexual exploitation and child sexual
by businesses and individuals, raise awareness        abuse
of the things people can do to protect              • Serious and organised crime
themselves, and reduce the number of people
                                                    • Cyber threats
who fail to do so.
The harm caused by alcohol and drug misuse
continues to be a concern and places a
huge demand on the police and across the
wider front line public sector services. I will
continue to campaign, in partnership with
influential people locally and nationally, for
changes in the law such as minimum unit
pricing for alcohol. In addition to tackling the
organised crime groups who supply illegal
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ACHIEVING
  THE OUTCOMES
  VICTIMS AND THE VULNERABLE FEEL SUPPORTED
  Key Performance Questions:
                                                                           2
  How well are victims supported to cope and recover, and engage in criminal justice processes?
  How well are vulnerable people supported?

   Headlines
   • Work through the Cleveland and Durham Local Criminal Justice Partnership to create an
     end-to-end system of care and support for victims and witnesses to help them cope and
     recover from the impact of crime and engage in criminal justice processes.
   • Monitor the success of services which provide support for victims and vulnerable people,
     including those with mental ill-health, whilst always seeking to improve current services
     and identify any further areas of support that may be needed.
   • Work with partners to commission new services for victims of domestic abuse.
   • Seek to expand the Community Peer Mentors project so that it is embedded across the
     Force area.

  I have emphasised throughout this Plan, the      cope and recover, and where appropriate
  importance and priority I am giving to putting   signposting them to a specialist service to
  victims first. The impact of crime and anti-     meet their specific requirements. Some of
  social behaviour can be devastating.             the more specialist services include the Hate
  I want to improve the experience of victims      Crime Advocacy Service and Mental Health
  and witnesses and to ensure that their voices    Advocacy Service, which have helped victims
  are heard throughout the criminal justice        to have a voice and a sense of confidence
  process. I also want to ensure that support      that they can achieve what they need from a
  - practical and emotional - is available for     prosecution or a trial in court.
  victims and witnesses to help them to cope       Whilst I am pleased to have put in place
  and recover, and that the support is suited      a number of victim services over the past
  to their individual needs. Creating an end-to-   two years, I know there is more to do.
  end system of care and support for victims       The contract for the Hate Crime Advocacy
  and witnesses is a central objective of the      Service has been renewed and revised,
  Cleveland and Durham Local Criminal Justice      and I have recently contracted a voluntary
  Partnership Plan.                                sector organisation to work with victims of
  In 2016 I introduced, with my Cleveland          forced marriage, honour-based violence and
  counterpart, Barry Coppinger, the Victim Care    female genital mutilation. I intend to build on
  and Advice Service (VCAS). VCAS focuses on       what we already have to ensure that there
  the needs of individuals, helping them to        are comprehensive support services. I am
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With Cleveland PCC Barry Coppinger, and the CEO of Safe in Tees Valley John Bentley ,at the launch of VCAS

exploring the need for additional services              intend to grow the use of Restorative Justice
for victims of domestic abuse and sexual                more over the next three years.
violence, working with the Police and partners   I will continue to work with partners to
in local authorities and the National Health     support vulnerable people, so that they do
Service. I am also leading work to improve       not become victims of crime and anti-social
the overall victim experience of the Criminal    behaviour or become involved in crime.
Justice System.                                  Significant numbers of incidents which the
I am also supporting victims through             Police deal with involve people with mental
investment in restorative justice. The           health issues, for example. My partners such
Restorative Hub employs staff and delivers       as the Local Authorities and the NHS Clinical
specialist training to volunteers. It supports   Commissioning Groups (CCGs), and I have
victims by giving them the chance to             signed a Mental Health Crisis Care Concordat.
communicate with the offender in the             The Concordat sets out how organisations
aftermath of a crime, with a facilitator         will work together better to make sure that
present. This allows them to have a voice in     people get the help they need when they
the criminal justice process and a chance to     are having a mental health crisis. Last year
get the answers or explanation they deserve. I liaised with the CCGs who began to fund a
There is evidence that it helps victims to cope team of mental health nurses, operating in
and recover whilst it also highlights the impact the Police Control Room. As mental health
of their behaviour to those who offend. I        professionals, they advise police on good
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ACHIEVING
  THE OUTCOMES
  VICTIMS AND THE VULNERABLE FEEL SUPPORTED
  practice when dealing with people in difficult
                                                                          2
                                                   be frequent callers to the emergency services.
  circumstances.                                   They have often found that those services
  In addition, I promote referral to Liaison and   were unable to meet their needs, and were
  Diversion services. These identify people        therefore left feeling vulnerable and isolated.
  who have mental health, learning disability,     The Community Peer Mentors provide
  substance misuse or other vulnerabilities        a different approach, looking to identify
  when they first come into contact with the       solutions and support from other service
  CJS as suspects, defendants or offenders.        providers, including charities and community
  The services can then support people into        groups.
  appropriate health or social care or enable      I am also reviewing, with my NHS, local
  them to be diverted away from the CJS into a     Authority and Constabulary colleagues the
  service more focused on their health needs.      support provided to victims of sexual abuse
  I will continue to work with partners to         at the Sexual Abuse Referral Centre. It is so
  understand and tackle the rising problem         important that victims of these terrible crimes
  of Modern Slavery in the area. I will work       are provided with the treatment they need,
  to raise its profile and ensure that there are   and we will make sure that services such as
  effective mechanisms for ensuring victims        crisis care and counselling meet their needs as
  recognise that they have been trafficked and/    far as possible.
  or enslaved and have the confidence and
  knowledge to report. I will ask the police to
  ensure that potential victims are referred
  to the National Referral Mechanism and
  provided with the necessary support.
  I will be looking to expand the Community
  Peer Mentor project further to ensure that
  it is embedded across the whole of the force
  area, that the number of available mentors
  increases, and that people who would
  benefit from the service can be identified and
  supported successfully. This unique service
  aims to support those suffering from anti-
  social behaviour and neighbourhood disputes,
  seeking to find solutions which take away
  the stress and upset which they are facing. A
  significant number of clients have tended to

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Mental Health Nurses have been introduced into the force control room

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ACHIEVING
  THE OUTCOMES
  REOFFENDING IS REDUCED AND REHABILITATION IS IMPROVED
  Key Performance Questions:
                                                                                           3
  How well are we reducing reoffending?
  How well are we rehabilitating people who have offended?

   Headlines
   • Work through the Local Criminal Justice Partnership to create an end-to-end system for
     people who have offended.
   • Work with partners to:
          ◦◦ Identify individuals at risk of reoffending
          ◦◦ Implement measures to ensure adults and young people are supported to desist
             from crime
   • Continue to invest in Youth Offending Services that focus on avoiding unnecessary
     criminalisation of young people.
   • Continue to support and potentially expand the Checkpoint diversion scheme.
  Offending and reoffending rates both                people who offend come from vulnerable
  nationally and locally have remained                backgrounds and have had many challenges
  stubbornly high. In Durham and Darlington           in their lives. Whilst this does not excuse
  around a third of people who offend3 reoffend       their behaviour, it does mean that we should
  within 12 months . There are also many              look at the root causes of their offending and
  examples of inter-generational reoffending,         tackle them. Targeted and desistance-based
  where members of the same families are              interventions are also required to rehabilitate
  locked into a pattern of criminal activity. I am    individuals effectively and reduce reoffending.
  committed to reducing this.                         The Criminal Justice System needs to be
  In order to prevent crime and stop people           effective in turning lives around and stopping
  who have offended from committing further           people reoffending, rather than serving as a
  crimes, partners need to work together to           brief interlude in a criminal career. This will
  implement effective measures to ensure              reduce crime, reduce the number of victims
  adults and young people who offend are              and make our communities safer.
  challenged and supported to desist from
  crime. Support for offenders with mental ill-
  health is a key part of this.
  Prevention and early intervention initiatives
  can have an impact on diverting individuals
                                                      3
                                                          MoJ binary reoffending measure
  away from offending in the first place. Many
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There are three key elements to this:            It was introduced in April 2015 and is a multi-
1.   We need to identify who is at risk of       agency initiative that takes a problem solving
     offending, and ensure that appropriate      approach to exploring why someone has
     support is in place to break the cycle of   offended and what can be done to stop them
     intergenerational offending                 by tackling that root cause. Offenders who
                                                 are eligible and agree to comply are placed
2.   We should intervene early so that,          on a four month contract tailored to suit their
     where appropriate, individuals who          individual case, for example a drug or alcohol
     want to change are diverted away from       intervention, voluntary work and wearing a
     the Criminal Justice System and enabled     GPS tag. Should they successfully complete
     to have positive outcomes                   the contract then they will not have to
3.   We should provide targeted, desistance-     progress through the criminal justice system,
     based interventions, and meaningful         but if they fail to complete the contract,
     sentences which are effective at            including reoffending of any kind, they will be
     rehabilitating individuals                  prosecuted.
Furthermore, I want to ensure that at every       The Local Criminal Justice Partnership (LCJP)
stage of the Criminal Justice System, people      is the main vehicle to deliver an end-to-
who have offended have access to services         end system for rehabilitating offenders and
which are going to help reduce their offending    reducing reoffending, ensuring that the police,
in the future.                                    youth offending services, Crown Prosecution
I am increasingly looking to invest resources     Service, Courts, Community Rehabilitation
to solve problems early and prevent               Company, National Probation Service, and
escalation into larger and more complex           Prisons, work together to reduce reoffending.
issues which ultimately cost society and the      The LCJP plan for 2018-21 was published
taxpayer more to fix. I will continue to invest   in January 2018. In addition to those core
in Youth Offending Services, and promote          criminal justice agencies, it requires the
approaches which do not criminalise young         support of those partners responsible
people unnecessarily.                             for supporting victims and providing the
                                                  services which help to prevent people
I remain fully committed to implementing          offending, including Public Health, Housing,
evidence-based early intervention strategies      Employment, and Mental Health services, so
with the aim to divert individuals from the       that people can get access to the support that
Criminal Justice System and to receive positive they need.
outcomes. This is crucial if we want to get to
the root causes of involvement in crime and
to prevent problems before they escalate. The
Checkpoint Diversion scheme which is in place
in our area is assisting in achieving this and it
should reduce reoffending in the long term.

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ACHIEVING
  THE OUTCOMES
  PEOPLE HAVE CONFIDENCE IN THE POLICE AND THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM

  Key Performance Questions:
                                                                            4
  How confident are people in the Criminal Justice System?
  How confident are people in the Police?

   Headlines
   • Maintain my commitment to having neighbourhood policing teams in place and ensure
     the Force continue to engage with local communities.
   • Visit all parts of Durham and Darlington so that I can understand the issues they face; and
     then be the voice of communities in my conversations with the Chief Constable and other
     partner organisations.
   • Grow use of technology and social media to connect with communities.
   • Continue to identify issues facing rural communities, and work with partners to address
     them.
   • Work with partners to maintain and improve confidence in policing and the criminal
     justice system.

  Communities who feel confident in their           It’s also important to me that local people feel
  local Police are also more likely to feel safe,   they can speak to me and raise issues. I want
  report crimes, and provide information and        to be the voice of local communities when I
  intelligence about offenders or crimes. That’s    speak to the Chief Constable, and our partners
  why I have maintained my commitment to            across the criminal justice system, expressing
  having neighbourhood police teams in place,       your opinions and priorities and seeking to
  across the area, despite the heavy cuts to the    ensure that they are addressed. That’s why I
  Police budget since 2010.                         try and spend at least a day each week with
                                                    a local community, across all parts of County
  There are now 88 regular PACT (Police and
                                                    Durham and Darlington.
  Communities Together) meetings, at which
  local officers hear from local residents about    In order to maintain the dialogue between
  the issues they face, and provide reassurance     communities and the Police, we have invested
  about how they are dealing with them. The         in technology that minimises the time that
  Police will also continue to engage with          officers spend away from the front line. The
  local communities in a range of other ways        Constabulary are also making the best use
  depending on the local circumstances, for         of social media, with many neighbourhood
  instance through established community            policing teams having their own Facebook or
  groups, Area Action Partnerships, and Town        Twitter accounts, connecting them directly
  and Parish Councils.                              to thousands of local people. The Keep in the

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Know system adds more capacity: it allows         working with religious and minority ethnic
the Police and other organisations to send        groups to understand their needs, and to
information direct to residents, including        ensure that they feel confident to report
appeals for information and advice about          matters to the Police.
crime prevention. It also enables the public      In addition to people having confidence in the
to send information to the Police, quickly and    police, I also want them to have confidence
confidentially.                                   in the criminal justice system which serves
Of course, every community is different, and      their community. Over the next three years,
has its own needs. I have spent a lot of time     I will be working with partners, building on
in the more rural parts of the Force area in      progress achieved so far, to improve the
recent years, and my annual Rural Statement       local system so that it improves outcomes
includes commitments to keeping in touch,         for victims, communities, and people who
and to putting in place relevant interventions    have offended. People need to know that, if
to support rural communities, such as night       they are a victim of crime, not only will the
vision goggles, and a mechanism for farmers       police treat them with respect and dignity and
and others to mark their property so that         support them to recover, but the system as a
it can be identified if stolen. Similarly, I am   whole will support them as well.

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POLICING VISION
  The National Police Chiefs’ Council and the Association of Police and
                                                                        2025
  Crime Commissioners published the Policing Vision 2025 in 2016. Durham
  Constabulary is putting in place measures to ensure that the vision will be
  achieved in Durham, ahead of schedule where possible.

  Policing Vision 2025 includes these commitments:

  LOCAL POLICING: by 2025 local policing will be aligned, and where appropriate
  integrated, with other local public services to improve outcomes for citizens and protect the
  vulnerable.

  SPECIALIST CAPABILITIES: by 2025, to better protect the public we will enhance
  our responses to new and complex threats, we will develop our network and the way we
  deliver specialist capabilities by reinforcing and connecting policing locally, nationally and
  beyond.

  WORKFORCE: by 2025 policing will be a profession with a more representative
  workforce that will align the right skills, powers and experience to meet challenging
  requirements.

  DIGITAL POLICING: by 2025 digital policing will make it easier and more consistent
  for the public to make digital contact, improve our use of digital intelligence and evidence and
  ensure we can transfer all material in a digital format to the criminal justice system.

  ENABLING BUSINESS DELIVERY: by 2025 police business support functions will
  be delivered in a more consistent manner to deliver efficiency and enhance interoperability
  across the police service.

  By 2025 there will be clear accountability arrangements to
  support policing at the local, cross force and national levels.
  I will be holding the Constabulary to account for the achievement of these objectives in
  Durham. The Constabulary is carrying out an annual self assessment of its own activity against
  the vision. I am pleased that good progress is already being made towards achieving the
  objectives and I will include updates each year in my annual reports.

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SERVICE DELIVERY
My key partner for achieving the outcomes which I have set is of course Durham
Constabulary, under the leadership of the Chief Constable. However, I work
with a much wider range of partners every day. The ambitions of this Plan are
therefore delivered in a variety of ways including:

BY THE POLICE                                                   THROUGH THE LOCAL
                                                                   CRIMINAL JUSTICE
I set high-level objectives for the Chief                              PARTNERSHIP
Constable every year, and monitor the
progress towards meeting those objectives
every month. This happens at my monthly          The Cleveland and Durham Local Criminal
meetings with the Chief Constable and            Justice Partnership (LCJP) brings together
through frequent engagement between my           agencies with responsibility for delivering
team and police officers and staff.              criminal justice, and services for victims
The Police’s high-level objectives are set out   and people who have offended. The
in a Policing Plan, which sets out strategic     partners have agreed a clear vision: ‘County
objectives and operational tasks for the         Durham, Darlington and Cleveland are
Constabulary. You will find a copy of on my      areas where people have confidence in a
website.                                         local criminal justice system which supports
                                                 victims, rehabilitates offenders and reduces
                                                 reoffending, and delivers value for money’.
                                                 The LCJP partners launched an innovative
                                                 new plan in January 2018. It has three core
                                                 objectives to be delivered by 2021:

                                                 1.   An end-to-end service for supporting
                                                      Victims and Witnesses.
                                                 2.   An end-to-end system for rehabilitating
                                                      offenders and reducing reoffending.
                                                 3.   The most efficient and integrated local
                                                      criminal justice system in the country.
                                                 Delivery of the LCJP plan will in particular aid
                                                 delivery of the outcomes I have set.
                                                 Too often victims are let down by the system
                                                 because they are passed from one agency to
                                                 another and not properly supported. This has
                                                 an impact both on their ability to cope and
                                                 recover from crimes, and on the likelihood of
                                                 justice being done. The plan will address this
                                                 by creating seamless services for victims.

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The Ministry of Justice delegates funding          THROUGH COMMISSIONING
  for victims’ services to Police and Crime
  Commissioners. I use this funding for the
                                                     AND INFLUENCING A RANGE
  Victims’ Care and Advice Service, which                OF LOCAL SERVICES TO
  assesses victims’ needs after they have          PROMOTE COMMUNITY SAFETY
  suffered a crime and then provides them                   AND PREVENT CRIME
  with direct support and, if necessary, gets
  them access to other more specialist services    Every day I and members of my staff are
  that will meet their needs. VCAS supports all    working with colleagues from a wide range
  victims of crime who request help whether        of partner organisations. In addition to
  the incident has been reported to the police     the police, these include other emergency
  or not. The grant also pays for services         services, Durham County Council and
  including Restorative Justice, Community         Darlington Borough Council, organisations
  Peer Mentors, and the Hate Crime Advocacy        within the National Health Service and a large
  Service.                                         number of community and voluntary sector
                                                   organisations.
  People who commit offences need to be
  challenged and dealt with appropriately,         Our discussions cover many of the issues
  however they often have many problems in         which I have included as priorities. For
  their lives, in particular with accommodation,   example, road safety is a matter for all of us,
  substance misuse, relationships, self-esteem,    as is tackling hate crime and preventing it by
  finances and employment. In order to break       improving community cohesion. My aim is to
  the cycle of offending, partners are going       ensure that we are all working to the same
  to work together to address the underlying       agenda, putting victims first and reducing the
  causes of offending. This will help to prevent   risk of crime and anti-social behaviour.
  crime and result in fewer victims.               I have developed clear policy positions on
                                                   those areas, and these are set out in the
                                                   Policy Position Statements on my website. I
                                                   use these to influence the delivery of services
                                                   by others, where I have an interest: services
                                                   to help people who use drugs and alcohol are
                                                   commissioned by Durham County Council and
                                                   Darlington Borough Council, for example.
                                                   Where there are gaps in services, or services
                                                   which need additional funding to help meet
                                                   my objectives, I have budgets to commission
                                                   services. In addition to the grant I receive
                                                   from the Ministry of Justice for Victims’
                                                   services, I also retain about £1.2m of the
                                                   Police Grant to fund services which reduce
                                                   reoffending and promote community safety.
                                                   In determining how this money is spent,
                                                   and to put in place services which help
                                                   meet the objectives in this plan, I work
                                                   with local partners including the two local
                                                   Community Safety Partnerships: the Safe
                                                   Durham Partnership and the Darlington
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Community Safety Partnership. I will publish             I am also working closely with partners in
a Commissioning Strategy which sets out my               the Police, NHS and Local Authorities to co-
approach to commissioning services.                      commission a range of services for victims of
My Community Safety Fund enables                         sexual violence and child sexual exploitation.
local community groups and voluntary                     We continue to collaborate with other police
organisations to benefit from £150,000 of                forces and PCCs, primarily Northumbria,
grant funding across the area. The fund is               Cleveland and North Yorkshire police forces
managed by County Durham Community                       on a range of specialist capabilities and we
Foundation (CDCF) and includes a wide                    are looking to expand and extend this over
range of projects aiming to reduce crime                 the next few years through the North East
and improve community safety. CDCF adds                  Transformation, Innovation and Collaboration
£50,000 to the £100,000 which I contribute,              programme. This programme will identify new
giving a total fund of £150,000.                         areas for collaboration to improve capacity,
Durham Constabulary has long standing and                effectiveness and value for money, and will
well established collaboration agreements                also enable us to implement, on a regional
and working arrangements with other forces               basis, national changes to the way that certain
and a range of partners, including councils,             services are provided.
the fire and rescue service and criminal justice         Partnership working helps make the best
agencies (HM Courts and Tribunal Service,                use of our resources and often involves our
Crown Prosecution Service) etc. These                    wider police family, including those who give
initiatives maximise outcomes not only for the           their valuable time by volunteering in a wide
agencies involved but for the communities of             variety of roles. This is a great way of bringing
County Durham and Darlington.                            communities into policing.

Michelle Cooper, CEO of County Durham Community Foundation, along with Georgia , myself, & Paul Lysaght from
Durham Community Boxing Club, who have received money from the Community Safety Fund

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PLAN ON A PAGE
  Durham Police, Crime and Victims’ Plan on Page 2018-2021

  VISION: County Durham and Darlington are areas where
  supported, crime and reoffending are low, and people have
   OUTCOMES
          Communities are safe and                           Victims and the vulnerable
             crime is reduced                                      feel supported
                                                         KPQ3: How well are victims supported to cope
          KPQ1: How safe are our communities?              and recover, and engage in criminal justice
                                                                          processes?
          KPQ2: How well are we preventing and                KPQ4: How well are vulnerable people
                   reducing crime?                                       supported?

   PRIORITIES
     • Ensure that victims are supported at all stages of the criminal justice system
     • Address the root causes of offending and support the rehabilitation of people who have
       offended
     • Safeguard vulnerable people
     • Improve road safety
     • Reduce the harm caused by alcohol and drugs
     • Improve community safety in rural areas

   SERVICE DELIVERY
                                POLICING                                              LOCAL CRIMINAL
       An Outstanding Constabulary which delivers efficient and                 An end-to-end local criminal
        effective policing, inspires confidence, supports victims,                 justice and rehabilitation
      tackles crime, solves problems and keeps communities safe,                  at every stage, and works
             and which will deliver the 2025 Policing Vision                   agency boundaries to reduce
     • Set strategic objectives through the Police, Crime and Victims’ Plan   • Set strategic objectives and
          and Policing Plan                                                      a local criminal justice plan

     • Set the police force budget                                            • Commission and influence
                                                                                 enable them to cope and
     • Hold the Chief Constable to account
                                                                              • Commission and influence
     • Work in partnership to support objectives                                 and support rehabilitation

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all communities are safe, victims and vulnerable people feel
confidence in policing and the criminal justice system.

                                                           People have confidence in the
    Reoffending is reduced and
                                                           police and the criminal justice
     rehabilitation is improved                                       system

                                                           KPQ7: How confident are people in the
  KPQ5: How well are we reducing reoffending?                    Criminal Justice System?

   KPQ6: How well are we rehabilitating people             KPQ8: How confident are people in the
             who have offended?                                          police?

  • Tackle and prevent:
          • domestic abuse and sexual violence in all their forms
          • hate crime
          • fraud
          • anti-social behaviour
          • modern slavery
          • cyber-enabled crime

JUSTICE SYSTEM                              COMMUNITY SAFETY AND PREVENTION
justice system which delivers
                                    Effective and efficient local services, delivered in partnership
efficiently, supports victims
                                         to prevent crime and the causes of crime, promote
in partnership and across
reoffending                           community safety, and reduce demand in the long term.
a programme for change through    • Commission and grant fund community safety programmes
                                  • Work in partnership to secure services that support prevention and
services to empower victims and       early intervention
recover
                                  • Influence partnership plans
services to reduce reoffending

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GOVERNANCE
  AND ACCOUNTABILITY
  As the police have a duty to serve the public, and are funded by the taxpayer,
  it is vital that they are publicly held to account. As your elected representative,
  giving you a voice in policing, I am dedicated to ensuring that this happens.

  I have developed a robust accountability         Constable to account. These include:
  framework to monitor the performance of          • Joint Audit Committee;
  Durham Constabulary and to enable scrutiny
  of the objectives as set out in this Plan. I     • Independent Custody Visitor Scheme; and
  formally meet with the Chief Constable and       • Rape and Domestic Abuse Scrutiny Panels.
  the other senior officers every month at the     Further information about each of these
  Executive Board meetings. This is where I        mechanisms can be found on my website
  hold the Chief Constable to account and any      www.durham-pcc.gov.uk.
  key decisions relating to the policing service
  are documented. At the meetings a wide           In addition to the formal accountability
  variety of topics are discussed, including:      mechanisms in place, the Chief Constable,
                                                   my office and I have excellent working
  Progress towards the achievement of the          relationships which allows us to have a regular
  Police and Crime Plan;                           dialogue, and day-to-day accountability.
  • Performance management;
  • Budget and financial information; and
  • Emerging threats and issues.
  On an annual basis I undertake a formal
  Performance and Development Review with
  the Chief Constable. This appraisal process is
  where I agree his personal objectives for the
  year ahead and discuss his performance.
  I will issue a public performance report on a
  quarterly basis to document the achievement
  of this Plan. The report includes data for the
  key performance indicators as set out in the
  outcomes of this plan, as well as containing
  key performance information and explaining
  what lies behind the data for each of the
  objectives in the plan.
  I have developed additional scrutiny
  mechanisms to help to hold the Chief

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POLICE & CRIME                                 relationship with the Chief Constable and how
                                               I am ultimately responsible to the public, and

PANEL                                          the additional scrutiny mechanisms which are
                                               in place.
The Police and Crime Panel (PCP) provide       The panel has a number of powers and
checks and balances on my work and             responsibilities, including to:
activity. The Panel does not scrutinise        • Review my draft police and crime plan;
Durham Constabulary but rather how I carry
out my statutory responsibilities. While       • Publicly scrutinise my annual report;
the Panel is there to challenge me, it also    • Review and scrutinise the decisions and
has a key role to support me in my role in       actions I take;
enhancing the public accountability of the     • Review and veto my proposed precept
police force.                                    levels;
The panel is composed of seven councillors     • Review my conduct;
from Durham County Council, three
councillors from Darlington Borough Council,   • Review and confirm my proposed
and two independent co-opted members.            appointments of Chief Constable, Chief
                                                 Executive, and Chief Finance Officer; and
The diagram below illustrates the
accountability framework. It shows my          • Handle and determine complaints against
                                                 me.

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RESOURCES
  RESOURCES WILL CONTINUE TO BE TIGHT, AND
  WE WILL ALWAYS NEED TO BE EFFICIENT
  Finance and Efficiency
   I need to ensure that taxpayers’ money is          I am committed to ensuring that this plan
   used as effectively and efficiently as possible.   will be delivered in the most efficient
   I am required to:                                  and effective manner to ensure that the
   • Secure an efficient and effective policing       service provided offers value for money to
     service for the area;                            the communities of County Durham and
                                                      Darlington. Effective and efficient use of
   • Set the police precept (police element of
                                                      resources coupled with a good understanding
     Council Tax) and set the budget; and
                                                      of the demand on services allows us to
   • Commission services to support victims           coordinate and align resources so that we
     and vulnerable people, and improve               can invest in preventative services to address
     community safety.                                issues before they worsen and cause us
   • Set the annual budget for the                    greater harm.
     Constabulary.
   I am also committed to innovation. Durham
   Constabulary is a leader in innovation with
   initiatives such as:
   • Checkpoint, a diversion scheme for low
     level offending.
   • The region’s first Community Safety
     Responders who work for Durham
     Constabulary as PCSOs, for County
     Durham and Darlington Fire and Rescue                       DURHAM
     Service as retained firefighters and as first
     responders for the North East Ambulance              CONSTABULARY
                                                        HAS BEEN, FOR THE
     Service (NEAS).
   • The use of body worn video technology
     which encourages early guilty pleas,
     which in turn saves resources and
                                                        LAST THREE YEARS,
     achieves better outcomes for victims.
                                                       THE MOST EFFICIENT
   • Emergency Services Hub at Barnard
     Castle, which is home to the Police,                POLICE FORCE IN
     Fire and Rescue Service, North East
     Ambulance Service, and the Teesdale and                THE COUNTRY
     Weardale Search and Mountain Rescue
     Team.                                                       HMICFRS
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As Government funding for policing and crime    My total budget in 2018-19 is £116.2m.
continues to be constrained, I will continue to I have allocated the Constabulary a
highlight how important it is for funding levelsbudget of £113.7m. This leaves £2.5m for
to meet the needs of County Durham and          commissioning activity and my office costs. I
Darlington, and campaign for fair funding.      have also received £0.7m from the Ministry
The two main sources of funding for Durham of Justice for the development of Victims’
Constabulary are Government grant and the       Services, making my total additional budget
police precept (police element of Council Tax). £3.2m. This is allocated as follows:
Whilst continuing to reduce the amount          • £2.1m to commission services to promote
of grant I receive every financial year the         community safety, support victims and
Government also only allow me to increase           reduce reoffending;
the precept by a certain level. This means            • £1.1m to my office. This funds the team
if our area’s precept did not increase in any           which assists me in fulfilling my role, and
particular year, the baseline (and therefore            associated costs. I am determined to keep
the budget) would be lower for every                    this as lean and efficient as possible, at the
subsequent year. This would make the                    same time as ensuring that I have sufficient
Constabulary less resilient to future budget            support to work with partners to deliver
reductions. Indeed, as Government funding               the reforms and improvements that are
has reduced, our dependence on the precept              necessary. My office costs represent less
has increased.                                          than 1% of the total budget.
In collaboration with the Constabulary I have         In addition, I have received funding totalling
updated the Medium Term Financial Plan                £0.59m from the Police Transformation Fund
(MTFP), which projects our financial position         to support development of a Whole System
over the next four years. The projections in          Approach to Domestic Abuse, and to develop
the plan will require some difficult decisions.       initiatives to increase the capacity and
It is anticipated that the Government’s public        resilience of the voluntary sector to support
sector funding reduction programme will               vulnerable people in our communities.
continue beyond 2020. This will require the
ongoing need to find efficiencies across both
the force and my office.

                    2017/18         2018/19             2019/20         2020/21          2021/22
                     £000            £000                £000            £000             £000
                                                       Estimate
         Income             £m               £m               £m                 £m              £m
           Grant           84.7            84.7                84.7             84.7            84.7

     Council Tax5          28.6            31.5                33.7             35.0            36.5

           Total          113.3           116.2               118.4           119.7            121.2

    Expenditure           113.3           116.2               118.4           119.7            121.2

      Difference              0                   0                0               0               0
5
    Assumes a £12 Band D increase in 2019/20 and 2% per annum thereafter
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RESOURCES
People

The Chief Constable and I recognise that our people are our organisations’ greatest assets.
Their knowledge, passion and attitude are the driving force which makes Durham unique and
different – the Durham Difference.
This means ensuring that officers and staff are recruited, trained and developed as effectively
as possible. It is also expected that officers and staff numbers will be stable over the next
four years. In addition, the Constabulary will also continue to recruit Special Constables and
volunteers in addition to the regular recruitment of PCSOs, Police Officers and police staff.
I am a strong advocate of diversity across County Durham and Darlington. I aim to achieve
a culture that values difference, and I expect the Chief Constable to attract and retain
a workforce which reflects the local community. Consultation with the public and key
stakeholders will be carried out in respect of diversity where necessary.

CONTACT ME
You can contact me in a variety of ways, including on social media. Just search for Durham PCC
on the following sites:

               Address                                            Phone
                   ODPCVC                                        0191 375 2001
             Police Headquarters

                                                                   Email
                 Aykley Heads
                   Durham
                   DH1 5TT
                                                   general.enquiries@durham.pcc.pnn.gov.uk

                    www.durham-pcc.gov.uk
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APPENDIX
  How the PCVC Plan links to other partnerships

          PCVC Plan                              One Darlington:         Safe Durham
                             LCJP Plan
          Outcomes                                Perfectly Safe        Partnership Plan
   • Communities are                            • Tackling Anti-social • Reduce Anti-social
     safe and crime is                            behaviour              behaviour
     reduced                                                            • Counter terrorism
                                                                          and prevention of
                                                                          violent extremism
                                                                        • Implement
                                                                          measures to
                                                                          promote a safe
                                                                          environment
   • Victims and the     • An end-to-         • Supporting              • Protect vulnerable
     vulnerable feel       end system for       vulnerable                people from harm
     supported             supporting victims   people, with a
                           and witnesses        particular focus
                                                on addressing
                                                domestic abuse,
                                                hate crime and
                                                sexual violence
   • Reoffending is      • An end-to-         • Reducing                • Reduce
     reduced and           end system for       offending and             reoffending
     rehabilitation is     rehabilitating       reoffending             • Embed the Think
     improved              offenders and      • Reducing the              Family Approach
                           reducing offending   harmful effects of      • Alcohol and
                                                   drugs, alcohol and     substance misuse
                                                   tobacco.               harm reduction
                                                • Working with
                                                  families with
                                                  multiple problems
   • People have         • The most efficient
     confidence in the     and integrated
     police and the        local criminal
     criminal justice      justice system in
     system                the country
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